The Imposter

Netflix has released 2012 film The Imposter to their streaming platform - and despite being a decade old, the documentary has certainly gathered a lot of ...

I had to double check twice that it was an actual documentary and not a fictional story. So crazy." Netflix describes the documentary as "unforgettable, chilling and emotional", before adding: "Despite glaring inconsistencies in his physical appearance, the boy's family brought their long lost 'son' home to restart his life in Texas." Despite the drastic differences, they still welcomed the man they believed was their son into their home and dismissed their questions. Eventually it was revealed that the son they had welcomed into their home was 23-year-old con-artist Frédéric Bourdin, who had posed as Nicholas. Their son was located halfway around the world in Spain and returned home to them in 1997, but things weren't quite what they'd hoped.

Texas schoolboy Nicholas disappeared at the age of 13 and his family were distraught, so they were understandably elated when a man arrived years later ...

As one French police captain recalled: "When he talked in Spanish, he became a Spaniard. I'm just a boy who needs love and attention." Nicholas Barclay was just 13-years-old when he disappeared and his family were distraught when no trace of him could be found. Now, his story is being shown on Netflix, in a jaw-dropping documentary called The Imposter. But it turns out the man was a Suddenly I was told 'you're free'. And in 2005 when he started living in a French boarding school with pupils half his age, he was only exposed after a teacher saw him in a documentary. He later said: "I'd been in shelters and foster homes most of my life. Soon after Bourdin was released in 2003, he returned to France and tried to pass himself off as a boy who had gone missing in 1996, aged seven. He began misbehaving at school and stealing from neighbours, and at the age of 12 he was sent to a school for young troublemakers. Born in June 1974 on the outskirts of Paris, Bourdin never knew his dad - an Algerian immigrant - and was abandoned by his mum when he was aged two. He became such an expert that when he pretended to be 14 in 2004, a doctor who examined him at the request of authorities in the French city of Grenoble concluded he was indeed a teenager – even though he was 30.

The documentary details the astonishing story of Nicholas Patrick Barclay, a 13-year-old boy who disappeared suddenly in Texas in 1994, with the seemingly ...

Nicholas was a blonde-haired, blue-eyed child who had grown up in Texas, but the Nicholas that came home a few years later looked completely different. The Barclays were told that their son had been found alone and scared in Spain and could finally be reunited with them, but sadly that was far from the case. The documentary details the astonishing story of Nicholas Patrick Barclay, a 13-year-old boy who disappeared suddenly in Texas in 1994, with the seemingly straightforward story taking a wild and chaotic turn.

The story begins in 1994, when 13-year-old Nicholas Barclay goes missing in Texas after playing basketball with friends. Barclay went missing suddenly in San ...

How could his personality and even accent have changed so dramatically? Well worth a watch," someone else added. Reacting to the doc, one person said: "Just watched The Imposter on Netflix and honestly wtf was that."

A new "jaw-dropping" documentary telling the haunting story of a young boy who went missing and then returned has been added to Netflix.

Are you a fan of watching crime-thrillers? Then, The Imposter is the film for you. Have a look at what other similar docu-series you can watch out for.

Based in the year 1974, this documentary is based on a 12-year-old child Jan Broberg who is abducted from a small church-going community in Idaho by a trusted neighbor and close family friend. Is he abducted for money or does something else lie in the store? Amanda, for those unaware, is a popular author who spent almost four years in an Italian prison for being charged in this case. The film was helmed by Kitty Green. Set up in 2018, the mystery grows when 34-year-old Shanann Watts and her two young daughters disappear in Colorado under mysterious circumstances. This is a story of a man named Eric Smith. This incident jolted a town in North-West England. While some might call the boy’s behavior psychotic, a few of them dug out the details as to what prompted him to take such a step. Is there an Imposter of Nicholas in real life? The 2012 documentary The Imposter has been added to Netflix thereby enriching its crime thriller section. Have a look at what other similar docu-series you can watch out for. Are you a fan of watching crime-thrillers?

Did they ever find Nicholas Barclay? The 2012 documentary is getting attention on Netflix, so let's revisit the case in 2022.

You can do a limited amount of research before you sit down and do an interview, and during the course of an interview things emerge and stories develop. He was just 13 and the documentary utilizes interviews, archival footage, and beyond to paint a portrait of the surprising string of events that followed. So, of course that’s part of what a documentary is about.” It turns out that he had pulled similar acts before, pretending to be an orphan in Europe. He had a different eye color and his accent had changed. The platform has offered audiences a wealth of titles to digest this year.

The popular 2012 documentary The Imposter has landed on Netflix and explores the mind blowing story of Frédéric Bourdin, a French man who fooled everyone ...

In 2007, Bourdin married a French woman by the name of Isabelle after a year-long courtship. A year later he posed as a missing adolescent Spaniard named Rubén Sánchez Espinoza whose mother had been killed in the Madrid bomb attacks. Bourdin was born in the French area of Nanterre, near the western suburbs of Paris in 1974. Perhaps most important are the home-brew tattoos: the letter “J” on his left shoulder, a “T” between his left thumb and forefinger, and the letters “LN” on the outside of his left ankle. Despite the media attention on The Imposter documentary, the case of missing child Barclay has gone almost completely cold and, sadly, Nicholas has never been found. With no news, the family of Nicholas were bizarrely contacted by Spanish authorities, who said they had located their son and he was waiting for them in Europe.

The latest in Netflix's true crime programming, The Imposter tells the chilling story of conman Frederic Bourdin who posed as missing teen Nicholas Barclay.

You have the freedom to The full 1 hour 38 minute film is available to stream on Netflix now. According to the The impersonation was discovered due to the suspicions of private investigator Charles Parker, and FBI agent Nancy Fisher. The documentary was originally released over ten years ago in 2012, and the case remains unsolved to this day. Netflix has added award-winning documentary The Imposter to their ever-expanding roster of true-crime programmes.